The Republican journal., 1887-09-29
Generalities.

Ex-Governor Luke p. Blackburn of Ken
tucky is dead.
The mare Bell Hamlin has trotted a mile at
Cleveland in 2.13 3-4.
Belle Boyd, the rebel spy. Is lccturing in Ne
braska on the civil war.
Newfoundland demands representation on
the new Fish Commission.
Bismarck, it is said, refuses to mediate be-
tween Russia and Bulgaria.
The signal service station on Mount Wash
ingtOn is to be discontinued.
In Mexico laborcrs get Is to % cents Il day.
and are often paid in farm produce.
A threatened strike of 5O,0oO colliers in the
Pennsylvania mines has been averted.
One exhibitor in the Nebraska State Fair at
Omaha displays 2S3 varieties of native grasses.
The United States Government will not ask
for the eXtradtion of McGarigIe, the Chicago
booder.
Only S1,911 900 of the per cent loan of 50
is now outstanding. The total loan originally
was S305 5S1 $50.
Six thousand singers participated in re-
cent music festival at Amsterdam. Minnie
Hauck was one of the sooSts.
The Executive Committee of the Beccher
statue lunu mas CHOSEN D. ". n. W ara as ScUlp-
tor. The statue will cost S25, 900.
Last year Pennsylvania produced 100000
tons of coal, valued at 900, 900, 900 This exceeds
the value of the gold and silver mine.
One of the rare productions of jackson
county, Mich. is white rattesnake with seven
rattles. 1t belongs to Richard Crouch, and is
quite tame.
About one hundred French fishing vessels
1oss do Ix-f1
gales on the Grand Banks, and at least fifty
lives were lost
England is our best wheat market. She has
taken from us $4,000 900 bushels since January
while all the rest of the world has taken only
11,OOO,0 900 bushels.
The wearing of false hair was introduced in-
to England from France in 1872. The practice
was introduced into the latter country from
Italy, where it originated.
Millionaire Flood, who has been in i'll health
for some time, has resigned the Presidency of
the Nevada Bank of San Francisco, and has been
succeeded by Millionaire Fair.
The Grand Army Posts of Boston are entirely
unanimous in denouncng the sarcastic, heart
less and brutal vctocs of private pension bills
by President Cleveland, last winter.
The cutting of rates on grain and provisions
intended for expectation has grown to such pro-
portions tnal tnC Trunk line managers nave taken
steps calculated to stop the practice.
The slide trombone, the most perfect of brass
musical instruments. is the Sackbut of the an
clients, and was revived about 1870. after
model found among the ruins of Pompcii.
The Henry George party has been given the
right to appoint election inspectors in New York.
Georges party, the Irving Hall and the Social
istic party have been fighting for the privilege.
Senator Fair put s1,500.OOO into the Nevada
Bank when he became its President. This will
probably enable the concern to tide over its
difficulties arising from the disastrous wheat
deal.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, whose husband is about
to be hung for Anarchist murder in Chicago,
says that when the Labor party expelled the
Anarchists they "eut the dogs tail off right
behind his ears
The missing whalcr Amethyst of New Bed
ford has been found wrecked in the Arctic reg
ions. The revenue cutter Rush went in search
of her in 1856. She had crew of 36 men. whose
fate is unknown.
During his address at the dedication of the
Ohio monuments at Gettysburg Gen. Hurst of
Chicothc said: ''No loyal soldier would ever
agree to allow 4 rebel monument to be placed
upon this battefeld.'
Massachusetts, by her system of State Aid to
needy soldiers and their families, has paid in
twenty-five years Eighteen millions of dollars.
About 81 900 per day is paid now by Mas>a-
chu>etts for State aid.
Clark Bocr>c of the Superior Court in New
York did we'll in refusing preliminary natural
iZation papers to Anarchist Most If we cannot
shut these follows out as immigrants, at least
we can decline to make them citizens.
Henry George was called as 4 juror in Part
Three of the City Court, New York, on Mon
day last He failed to answer when called, and
has not since appeared. Judge Brown has fined
him 800 for his disregard of the law.
On Sunday, the 18th inst, Capt. X. b. Forbes
was 81 years OF age. He still does little
hand work in the way of making miniature
models of shipping, and has recently illustrated
his new rig for square-rigged vessels.
Pension Commissioner Black has signed the
pension certificate of Gov. OglCsby OF Illinois,
under the Mexican Pension law based ln'Ier
the Governors service in the Mexican war and
on the fact OF his being over 81 years Old.
The liqlor manufacturers, dealers and
loon keepers in Chicago, numbering 800 voters.
are organizing with view Of Civ their eoid
support to the party which will oiicr them the
most for it, They claim to control 2o,000 votes.
The liquor men seem to be alarmed by the
canvass now making for the prohibition alnen,-
ment in Tennessee. The National Protective
Association of D>tcrS and Wholesale Whis-
KEY Dealers has been in session at Cincinnati
to devise means for fighting the amendment. 1t
Is announced that SO 800 is to be raised at once
and sent into the State.
An American lady, who saw the cX-EmprcsS
Eugene at Amsterdam. says she ha.i crown
very stout and infirm, and has lost every YES
tige of her once dazzling beauty. She Is subject
to attacks of Insomnia, during which she will lit
the whole night through before the portrait Of
the Prince Imperial, and these attacks usually
terminate in fits of weeping an! acute hysteria.
The announcement that cure for consump-
ton had been discovered had hardly reached the
people of remote locations before we are in
formed that the ulphureted hydrogen
has proved Intellectual in all the cases to which
it has been administered. 1t improves the con-
dition of the patient for while. but soon loses
its power over the system, and the disease shows
itself with renewed vigor.